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Written by RecurringBloatware on 2024-12-23 at 22:02

Sigh. Can't believe that I am going to write my first post as someone depressing and pathetic about myself. I've graduated at the end of 2022 as a CS grad. I've tried applying for multiple internships, and to this day, I was not able to land myself my first job. It is going to be the start of the third year. My mental health is in a terrible state, I don't feel like doing anything, and I've lost the confidence to even apply for job portals. #work #job #unemployment #mentalhealth #cs #programming

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Written by Rowland Mosbergen on 2024-12-23 at 23:29

@RecurringBloatware what type of internships would you be interested in?

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Written by RecurringBloatware on 2024-12-24 at 05:34

@rowlandm Thank you for talking your time to read my rant. I'm a CS grad, so honestly, I am comfortable with anything that involves solving problems with #programming. My experience revolves around technologies related to full-stack web development. I am also an #opensource contributor, and I've volunteered for projects involving or related to #rubyonrails, #sklearn, #skiff, #gitlab, #gnome and #nixos in the recent past. Right now, I maintain packages for #guix.

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Written by Rowland Mosbergen on 2024-12-24 at 05:50

@RecurringBloatware wow that's really impressive!

I was wondering if you were involved in open source and you answered my question with an affirmative yes!

I'm curious to know if there has been any upside with contributing to these open source projects?

Or what would an internship provide that your open source contributions cannot?

Please feel free to not answer if you don't feel like it :)

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Written by RecurringBloatware on 2024-12-24 at 06:17

@rowlandm unfortunately, no, I don't feel like these contributions have added any value to my portfolio/resume. For example, let's talk about #gitlab. The reason why I stopped was because I felt #exploited. For almost 6 months, all I did was #contribute - I also took part in 2 of their #hackathon. Any interaction with their employees felt robotic, corporate-like. I wanted something out of the community - #jobopportunities, #mentorship, or #upskilling, but nothing came out of it.

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Written by Rowland Mosbergen on 2024-12-24 at 06:26

@RecurringBloatware :(

That sucks.

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Written by Rowland Mosbergen on 2024-12-24 at 06:29

@RecurringBloatware what kind of upskilling or mentorship would help you the most?

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Written by RecurringBloatware on 2024-12-24 at 06:46

@rowlandm I've struggled with working on a project for silly reasons. Like for example, say I was developing a URL shortener. It didn't feel right to me that the Base64URL-encoded string ID may collide, although the chances may be low, and I get the urge to over-engineer - I want to ensure that if the hash already exists, then I should generate a new one. And the problem with this over-engineering is that now I also have to track if the ID has been exhausted or not, to prevent an infinite loop.

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Written by Rowland Mosbergen on 2024-12-24 at 12:43

@RecurringBloatware right, I think I understand

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Written by Rowland Mosbergen on 2024-12-24 at 12:46

@RecurringBloatware

Maybe it might help if you have a more business oriented minimum viable product , rather than technical orientated problem, to reduce the opportunity to over engineer?

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Written by RecurringBloatware on 2024-12-24 at 15:15

@rowlandm I am curious about how complex of a project I should be working on, to show recruiters that I am eligible for a given role.

I mean, a To-do list won't probably do it, as it is too generic. E-commerce projects are also too generic, at least from what I've learnt by reading on other social media.

What would be the two or three projects that, in your opinion, might be a nice pick?

And alternatively what if I use a niche framework/library?

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Written by Rowland Mosbergen on 2024-12-24 at 20:59

@RecurringBloatware I think first of all that you're in a tough situation because it's not that easy to get a job right now.

I'm going to make the assumption that you're in America? And I'm also going to make the assumption that the joke market is particularly tough because they've made thousands of experienced developers redundant over the last year or so.

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Written by RecurringBloatware on 2024-12-25 at 12:19

@rowlandm I am from India. Well, I mustered up a little bit and applied to Canonical, but I'm not really that hopeful, given how the role is for a Field Engineer, and except for my experience in Linux and a college course with Hadoop, I know nothing about Kubernetes, Ceph or OpenStack.

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Written by Rowland Mosbergen on 2024-12-25 at 13:07

@RecurringBloatware good luck with the application!

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